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Thurnscoe Woman Teacher – Not Guilty on Stealing Charges

April 1944
South Yorkshire Times, April 1st, 1944 Thurnscoe Woman Teacher Not Guilty on Stealing Charges Ethel Pilmer, 56, teacher of Thurnscoe, was found not guilty at the Leeds...

Sailor – Oliver, Tom – Service Snaps

April 1944
South Yorkshire Times, April 22nd, 1944 Service Snaps Marine Tom Oliver (19), third son of Mr. and Mrs. Oliver of 45, Homecroft Road, Goldthorpe, has been...

Soldier – Phelps, Alexandre – Service Snaps

April 1944
South Yorkshire Times, April 22nd, 1944 Service Snaps Driver Alexandre Phelps, who is 20 on April 4th, is the son of Mrs. E. Phelps, of 9,...

Editorial – Waiting for the Zero Hour

1 April 1944
South Yorkshire Times April 01st 1944 Waiting for the Zero Hour Waiting for zero hour is always apt to be a trying experience. It tests the...

Editorial – Shadow and Substance

22 April 1944
South Yorkshire Times, April 22nd, 1944 Shadow and Substance Surely no campaign in the history of warfare has ever been so well advertised as the Second...

Editorial – Finance and the Future

29 April 1944
South Yorkshire Times April 29th 1944 Finance and the Future Sir John Anderson's Budget withheld the last straw. Our national economy is now so finely adjusted...

Golden Wedding – Mr & Mrs Jackson

May 1944
South Yorkshire Times, May 27th, 1944 Golden Wedding Fifty years happily married, 53 years down a coal mine and only a week’s illness in 78 years,...

Ambulance Success – “Specials” Shine

May 1944
South Yorkshire Times, May 6th, 1944 Ambulance Success Goldthorpe And Thurnscoe “Specials” Shine Thurnscoe and Goldthorpe Special Constables were members of the Doncaster Divisional team, winners...

Wedding – Merrill & Hocking

May 1944
South Yorkshire Times, May 6th, 1944 Wedding: Merrill and Hocking The marriage was solemnised at Goldthorpe Paish Church on Saturday of Miss Joyce Merrill, eldest daughter...

Marconigrams – May 20th, 1944

May 1944
South Yorkshire Times, May 20th, 1944 Marconigrams Eighteen defendants from Wombwell, Blacker Hill, Darfield and Great Houghton were fined 7s 6d each at Barnsley on Monday...